Mayor Canceling Free Speech Rally After Gobbling Up Fake News

Over Memorial Day weekend, a deranged white supremacist allegedly killed two bystanders after they came to the defense of a pair of young Muslim women on a train in Portland, Oregon, whom he had reportedly been harassing.

Though alleged killer Jeremy Joseph Christian was later outed as a former Bernie Sanders supporter who, according to Townhall, hates Christians, Jews and Muslims, the media have nevertheless rushed to tie him to President Donald Trump.

And sadly, it appears Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has bought into the media’s lies hook, line and sinker.

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On Monday the mayor called for the cancellation of a “Trump Free Speech Rally” scheduled for next weekend, claiming it would be inappropriate and might pose a danger to locals, according to The Associated Press.

“I hope we rise to the memory of these two gentlemen who lost their lives,” the mayor told reporters. “Let’s do them honor by standing with them and carrying on their legacy of standing up to hate and bigotry and violence.”

Honor them by making false judgments about Trump supporters who have no ties whatsoever to the sick ideology touted by Christian? Sounds fair.

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The mayor’s whole premise is, in reality, based on lies upon lies, the key one being that the president’s unwavering support among roughly 50 percent of the American people is itself rooted in white supremacy.

Never mind the fact that Trump performed spectacularly well with minorities during the 2016 presidential election. And forget the fact that even your humble correspondent, an East Indian immigrant of 29+ years, voted for him.

Also feel free to gloss over the fact that, according to Townhall, Christian once expressed admiration for radical black revolutionaries such as Malcolm X. He’s also an avid supporter of Black Lives Matter, according to Heat Street. Go figure.

To be perfectly frank, this deranged lunatic sounds a whole lot more like a radical leftist socialist than he does a conservative supporter of Trump.

Of course, this doesn’t mean socialists such as Bernie Sanders deserve any blame for Christian’s heinous actions. The fact is that he’s a highly disturbed man representative of nobody save for himself and perhaps a few other random nutjobs here and there.

If Mayor Wheeler genuinely cares about repudiating Christian’s twisted ideology, he ought to support next week’s rally.

But instead he chose to fight back against bigotry and intolerance by practicing his own brand of it. Sad!